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In room after room at Oregon Health & Science University Hospital's COVID-19 intensive care unit, patients are sedated and on life support, many of them much younger than the people sickened by the coronavirus鈥� earlier waves. As they tend to patients, the nurses, doctors and support staff on duty report feeling the strain.

Oregon鈥檚 entire congressional delegation on Monday urged the Federal Emergency Management Agency, known as FEMA, to help the state cope with the latest surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations by providing medical personnel.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced on Friday that she would be sending up to 1,500 Oregon National Guard troops to help hospitals deal with the surge in delta variant COVID-19 cases.

Jackson County has asked the state to help with a surge of coronavirus cases that鈥檚 overwhelming hospitals in Jackson and Josephine counties.

Propelled by the delta variant and large numbers of unvaccinated people, COVID-19 patients are flooding California hospitals at a rate not seen since last winter鈥檚 surge.

Lane County is experiencing another COVID-19 surge. Health officials are concerned not only about the rise in cases but also the growing number of people refusing to comply with contact tracing efforts.

A big city hospital and a small town version will team up to train doctors in Oregon. Oregon Health & Sciences University in Portland and Sky Lakes鈥�

Siskiyou County, Calif., appointed its first county physician, John Ridgely in 1855. For impoverished patients to receive his care, they had to petition鈥�

It's been quite a year for what was called Ashland Community Hospital. The small hospital needed to find a merger partner, had one, then watched as the鈥�